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AIDS, Drugs of Abuse, and the Neuroimmune Axis

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 402)

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. The Effect of Novel Opioids on Natural Killer Activity and Tumor Surveillance in Vivo

    • Daniel J. J. Carr, Mace Scott, Linda L. Brockunier, Jerome R. Bagely, Charles P. France
    Pages 5-11
  3. Kappa Opioid Receptors on Immune Cells as Studied by Fluorescent Ligands

    • Jean M. Bidlack, Diane M. P. Lawrence, Tracey A. Ignatowski
    Pages 13-22
  4. Presence of Opiate Alkaloid-Selective μ3 Receptors in Cultured Astrocytes and in Brain and Retina

    • M. H. Makman, K. Dobrenis, S. Downie, W. D. Lyman, B. Dvorkin
    Pages 23-28
  5. Opiates, Glia, and Neurotoxicity

    • Chun C. Chao, Shuxian Hu, Phillip K. Peterson
    Pages 29-33
  6. Morphine Affects the Brain-Immune Axis by Modulating an Interleukin-1 Beta Dependent Pathway

    • Sulie L. Chang, Roberta L. Moldow, Steve D. House, James E. Zadina
    Pages 35-42
  7. Opioid Dependency and the Progression of Simian AIDS

    • Keith F. Killam Jr., Linda F. Chuang, Ronald Y. Chuang
    Pages 43-51
  8. Endogenous Opioids and HIV Infection

    • Kamaraju S. Sundar, Lakshmi S. Kamaraju, James McMahon, Robert A. Bitonte, Sastry Gollapudi, William H. Wilson et al.
    Pages 53-57
  9. Methionine Enkephalin Used in Combination with Azidothymidine in Murine Retrovirus Infection

    • Steven Specter, Nicholas Plotnikoff, Jeong-Im Sin, Darlene Goodfellow
    Pages 59-62
  10. On the Evolution of Opioid Mechanisms and Immune Defenses

    • Fernando L. Renaud, Enid Z. Tomei
    Pages 63-69
  11. Purification and Characterization of a Secreted T Cell β-Endorphin Endopeptidase

    • Afshin Safavi, Bonnie C. Miller, Louis B. Hersh, G. Larry Cottam
    Pages 71-79
  12. Prenatal Morphine Exposure Interacts with Adult Stress to Affect Type and Number of Blood Leucocytes

    • James T. Martin, Sandra L. Nehlsen-Cannarella, Gary M. Gugelchuk, Omar Fagoaga
    Pages 89-94
  13. Endogenous Cannabinoid Ligands

    • R. Mechoulam, S. Ben Shabat, L. HanuÅ¡, E. Fride, M. Bayewitch, Z. Vogel
    Pages 95-101
  14. CANNABINOIDS AND IMMUNITY TO Legionella pneumophila INFECTION

    • Thomas W. Klein, Catherine Newton, Herman Friedman
    Pages 103-109
  15. Cannabinoids and Interleukin-6 Enhance the Response to Nmda in Developing CNS Neurons

    • D. L. Gruol, J. G. Netzeband, Z. Qiu, I. L. Campbell, K. L. Parsons
    Pages 111-117
  16. Cannabinoid Receptor Expression in Immune Cells

    • D. A. Dove Pettit, D. L. Anders, M. P. Harrison, G. A. Cabral
    Pages 119-129
  17. Cannabinoids and Immunity to Viruses

    • Steven Specter
    Pages 131-134
  18. Alteration of Macrophage Functions by Cocaine

    • S. S. Lefkowitz, A. Vaz, J. Lincoln, T. Cain, D. J. Brown, D. L. Lefkowitz
    Pages 135-144

About this book

This volume represents the Proceedings of the Symposium on AIDS, Drugs of Abuse and the Neuroimmune Axis. This meeting was held in San Diego, California, November 11-13, 1995. As in the previous symposia in this series, productive studies were reviewed concerning the relationship between the nervous and the immune systems in regards to the relationship between drugs of abuse and infections, especially infections by the immunode­ ficiency virus that causes AIDS. In recent years, various investigators have begun to describe the role of illicit drugs and their endogenous counterparts on the brain-immune axis. It is widely recognized that the neuroendocrine system is intimately involved in the effects and manifestations of the interactions of drugs of abuse and the immune system. The meeting on which the chapters in this book are based brought together many biological scientists from an array of various scientific disciplines whose work is focused on the effects of drugs of abuse on the neuroendocrine-immune axis and its relationships to immunodeficiency caused by the AIDS virus. As in the past, the symposium was unique in focusing on the . brain-immune axis from the viewpoint of drugs of abuse rather than from the viewpoint of immunity or the brain itself.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, USA

    Herman Friedman

  • Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA

    Toby K. Eisenstein

  • Emory University, Atlanta, USA

    John Madden

  • Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, USA

    Burt M. Sharp

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: AIDS, Drugs of Abuse, and the Neuroimmune Axis

  • Editors: Herman Friedman, Toby K. Eisenstein, John Madden, Burt M. Sharp

  • Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0407-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-8038-2Published: 26 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-0407-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0065-2598

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 246

  • Topics: Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Pharmacology/Toxicology

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